Student Tracking: A federal court will decide whether a Texas high school violated a student’s right to privacy and freedom of religion when it required students to wear ID cards embedded with RFID chips.

Information Security & Cyberthreats

Conflict Moves Online: Cyber attacks on Israeli and Palestinian websites significantly increased after the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Intellectual Property

Bogus Notice: The copyright notice being posted by users on Facebook does not alter the license users gave the social network under its Terms of Service.

Web Radio Bill: Pandora failed to generate congressional support for its Internet Radio Fairness Act, which would reduce the music royalty fees paid by web radio services.

Free Expression & Censorship

Right to Record Police: The Supreme Court denied certiorari to a Seventh Circuit ruling finding that an Illinois law banning the recording of police officers violated the First Amendment.

Google As Publisher: An Australian court found Google liable for defamation after the search engine failed to remove images and other material linking a music promoter to criminal activity.

Practice Notes

Online Banking Procedures: Dan Mitchell explains how to determine liability for fraudulent online transactions following a First Circuit decision on a bank’s obligations in response to online cyber-thefts.

On the Lighter Side

Berne’d!: The legal fallacy of the copyright notice going viral on Facebook.